FATHERS AND CHILDREN 'So he's going to cut them up,* observed Pavel Petrovitch. * He has no faith in prin- ciples, but he has faith in frogs.' Arkady looked compassionately at his uncle; Nikolai Petrovitch shrugged his shoulders stealthily. Pavel Petrovitch himself felt that his epigram was unsuccessful, and began to talk about husbandry and the new bailiff, who had come to him the evening before to complain that a labourer, Fcma, 'was deboshed/ and quite unmanageable. 'He's such an JEsopJ he said among other things ; * in all places he has protested himself a worthless fellow; he's not a man to keep his place ; he *II v/alk off is a huff like a fool/